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| Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||||||
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| Born: | (1976-01-15)January 15, 1976 (age 49) Fort Valley, Georgia, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school: | Peach County(Fort Valley) | ||||||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1998: 2nd round, 34th pick | ||||||||||||
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D'Tanyian Jacquez "Quezi" Green (born January 15, 1976) is an American former professionalfootball player who was awide receiver andpunt returner in theNational Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. Green playedcollege football for theFlorida Gators, earning consensusAll-American honors in 1997. He was a second-round pick in the1998 NFL draft, and played professionally for theTampa Bay Buccaneers, theWashington Redskins and theDetroit Lions of the NFL.
Green was born inFort Valley, Georgia in 1976.[1] He attendedPeach County High School in Fort Valley,[2] and was a member of the Peach County Trojans high school football,basketball, andtrack and field teams. Green received all-state honors in football and basketball as a senior, and was also selected to play in the annual Georgia vs. Florida High School All-Star football game. Green playedquarterback throughout high school, except for his junior season when the Peach County Trojans lost in the state title game; that season he played wide receiver andrunning back. He was also a member of the Peach County Trojans' state championship 4x100-meter relay team as a junior.
Green accepted an athletic scholarship to attend theUniversity of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played wide receiver for coachSteve Spurrier'sFlorida Gators football team from1995 to1997.[3] He was a three-yearletterman and a member of the1996 Gators'Bowl Alliance national championship team,[3] when he had seven catches for seventy-nine yards in the Gators' 52–20Sugar Bowl victory over theFlorida State Seminoles. Against theAuburn Tigers in 1997, he scored a rare triple—throwing atouchdown pass, catching one and running for one. Green suffered a major injury when he dislocated his hip in the 1995 national championship game against theNebraska Cornhuskers. He may best be remembered for a 58-yardreception from quarterbackDoug Johnson late in the 1997 Florida-Florida State game that propelled the underdog Gators over the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles.[4] He was a member of the Gators'Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship teams in 1995 and 1996, a first-team All-SEC selection and a consensus first-team All-American in 1997, and was one of the three finalists for theBiletnikoff Award.[3][5] Green caught sixty-one passes for 1,024 yards and nine touchdowns as a junior before entering theNFL Draft.[3]
Green was a second-round draft choice (thirty-fourth pick overall) of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the1998 NFL draft.[6] He played for the Buccaneers for four seasons from1998 to2001.[7] Green's most productive seasons as a wide receiver were1999, when he caught 56 passes for 791 yards with three touchdowns (only tenstarts), and2000, when he had 51 receptions for 773 yards.[7] Before the2002 season, he signed as afree agent with the Washington Redskins and reunited with former Florida Gators and Buccaneers teammateReidel Anthony. He was released by the Redskins and signed by the Detroit Lions. Prior to the2003 season, he signed with his former team, the Buccaneers, and retired. He ended his NFL career starting 37 of the 66 games in which he played, registering 162 receptions for 2,311 yards and seven touchdowns.[1]
Green said that he playedMadden NFL every day, and that "I want to make it to the NFL just to play in this [game] this right here. More than I want to play in the NFL".[8] He won the annualMadden Bowl in 2001 and 2002. Green served as theoffensive coordinator forGibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida for two successful seasons, and was the associate head coach and offensive coordinator atLincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida. Green helped lead Lincoln to the 2010 state championship and a state runner-up performance in 2012.
Green spent one year atValdosta High School inValdosta, Georgia, as their wide receivers coach before returning to Lincoln High School for 3 more seasons. He was previously the offensive coordinator atGodby High School in Tallahassee, FL. Green helped with a resurgence at Godby High School, after winning 5 games the previous 2 seasons, the Godby Cougars went 10-2 during the 2017 season, and 23–3 over his two-year coaching stint.
In September 2017, Green was inducted into the University of Florida Football Hall of Fame.
Green was announced as the offensive coordinator for theManatee High School Hurricanes inBradenton, Florida on July 10, 2019.[9] In May 2021, Green was named Head Coach of the Hurricanes.
